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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Energy impacts? We must build more solar. We _are_ building more solar, and the US not being in the middle of a fascist takeover would sure help. But the problem is not really "AI", so much as that is an inciting incident, but some of the real problem is the US political structure being deeply intertwined with oil.
Looking globally, the conversion to renewable energy is well underway. Later than ideal for sure, but, we're doing it.
20% of UK power was wind last year!
California just installed _19 nuclear reactor-equivalents_ of battery capacity. That enables solar for base load generation in a whole new way.
it's not enough but the process is underway, and the economic model of it is actually really optimistic. Solar is _cheap_. And scalable such that we could just make every parking lot a solar farm. We need to be asking why not at every planning meeting. We need to be starting companies to just go do this.